The graphs below show the cinema attendance in Australia and the average cinema visits by different age groups from 1996 to 2000.

The table gives information about the proportion of Australians who joined

cinema

and the common theatre visits by disparate age groups between 1996 and 2000.

Overall

, there was an increase in

cinema

attendance in Australia and there was a decrease in the frequent

cinema

visits. Meanwhile, the figure for the 14-24 age group enjoyed going to the

cinema

the most throughout the period. In 1996, 62% of people being examined went to the

cinema

, after which the figure experienced a light fluctuation, before ending at 72% in 2000.

Conversely

, the repetition of theatre visits was seen a decline, from 10.3 in 1996 to 8.3

at the end

of the duration. At the beginning of the phase, 15% of the 14-24 years old spectators travelled

cinema

, followed by an unsteadiness and reaching about 18% in 2000. Similar changes, but to a lesser extent, were seen in 25-35, 35-49 years old and senior groups with the figure from 14%, 12% and 10% in 1996 to 17%, 15% and 14% in 2000, respectively.